a: complex numbers ~
b: an upgrade to our number system
What:
"Seeing complex numbers as an upgrade to our number system, just like zero, decimals and negatives were."
Yes indeed. The complex plane system did not fall out of the sky. It was invented to help solve the real problem of equations that contained negative roots.
Useful?
Writer: Kalid Azad
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Date: Aug 21 2014 5:29 PM
# 6143 Critique Analogy